[pjchappy]

There's talk of Selig overruling the call, making it a perfect game.  With the ump himself pretty much immediately apologizing, I don't see why this won't happen.


Paul

[woodsyi]

That's gonna be like an annulment.  What happens to the 28th at bat?

[JRace]

Well I just witnessed a real tragedy on The Colbert Report tonite when 1 of Spain's premier bullfighting matadors got gored by the bull.

How is that a tragedy?
Isn't the "sport" an armed dude trying not to get hurt by an animal?
In this case he just lost the game. The real tragedy is that this is still considered a sport.

[satfrat]

How is that a tragedy?
Isn't the "sport" an armed dude trying not to get hurt by an animal?
In this case he just lost the game. The real tragedy is that this is still considered a sport.

 
 
I guess you just anwered your own question then,,, didn't you? 

[Cacophonix]

Sorry about that.  I got carried away - I get to talk cricket so infrequently these days.  My recommendation for anybody who is interested in what cricket is all about:  find an Indian friend and get him to tell you about it.

 
What he says is true ... I'm Indian, and i can go on and on about cricket for hours! 

Simply put a googly is variation bowled by a right handed leg spin bowler. The stock delivery is one that turns left (away from a right handed batsman) after pitching. Googly is a variation that turns -right- (towards the right handed batsman) after pitching without any discernible change in the bowling action.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/skills/4173812.stm

[zybar]

That's gonna be like an annulment.  What happens to the 28th at bat?

Moot point - it isn't getting overturned.

George

[arthurs]

Moot point - it isn't getting overturned.

George

IMO, that is ridiculous.  Selig should have done the right thing here. 

[macrojack]

Impeach Bud!

[JRace]

I guess you just anwered your own question then,,, didn't you? 

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[sts9fan]

I don't feel bad for the pitcher or the toreador.

[lcrim]

Bud Selig could have fixed this.  The fact that he has never gotten anything right and that he's a spineless skunk are traceable to the fact that he's hired by the owners.  The owners fired Faye Vincent who was independent and replaced him w/ one of their own.  Selig speaks only for ownership, not the players nor the fans.
This was a unique chance to get it right and Selig says its better to let a mistake stand.   

[cujobob]

There really wasn't much chance of it getting overturned.  If two others hadn't been thrown this season already, do you think that might change the outcome?

I don't know who they would have called the error on, but that's just ridiculous he didn't even get the no-hitter.  I'm still in disbelief.

There really isn't any reason not to overturn the play or put it down with an asterisk or...something.  Someone who didn't play changed the outcome of the rarest of rarities.  There have been blown/bad calls in the NFL that changed the outcome of an entire season...those are hard to watch.  But when one play changes the outcome of a game..there's a whole timeline before it that the team could have done something different.  In a perfect game...he'd done everything perfectly....AND got an extra out.

[twitch54]

Galarraga wuz robbed.  So few pitchers actually toss a no-hitter, let alone a perfect game

and to think..........it would have been 3 perfect games in less than four weeks....never before in the history of the game ! Now that the steriod era is over the pitchers are making a comeback !!

[Randy]

Watch the video. A moving scene in Detroit today.



http://www.detnews.com/article/20100603/SPORTS0104/6030481/Joyce-emotional-during-pregame-meeting-with-Galarraga

[twitch54]

I don't feel too sorry for him.....he did get a new Corvette !